Tag: Human rights

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party held key meetings with opposition leaders in Ankara this week, in a ...

The European Union agreed on Tuesday to lift sweeping economic sanctions on Syria, in a bid to support the war-torn ...

“Now is the time to build an equal life together—there are no more excuses,” said Tülay Hatimoğulları co-chair of Turkey’s ...

İstanbul dismissed mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has denounced a new wave of corruption investigations targeting municipal officials, accusing Turkish authorities of ...

Hicri İzgören This week marks the 'Week of Struggle Against Enforced Disappearances in Custody'... As in every year, various organisations ...

Calls for the release of gravely ill prisoners have intensified in Turkey, as prominent human rights defenders and political figures ...

Meral Danış Beştaş, a pro-Kurdish MP, highlighted that resolving Turkey’s Kurdish issue requires more than disarmament; political reforms, human rights, ...

Human rights organisations and legal experts in Turkey have called for sweeping judicial reforms following the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) ...

In Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır (Amed), in eastern Turkey, Kurdish legal organisations and civil society groups are urging the Turkish government to ...